Chambers, Whittaker

Chambers, Whittaker

▪ American journalist
original name  Jay Vivian Chambers  
born April 1, 1901, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
died July 9, 1961, near Westminster, Maryland
 American journalist, Communist Party member (1923–38), and a principal figure in the Alger Hiss (Hiss, Alger) case, one of the most publicized espionage incidents of the Cold War. (He assumed his mother's maiden name, Whittaker, in the 1920s, and he subsequently used a number of aliases.)

      At various times Chambers was an editor of the New Masses, The Daily Worker, and Time magazine. In August 1948, before a congressional committee, he identified Hiss as a fellow member of a communist spy ring in Washington, D.C., during the 1930s. Chambers produced copies of State Department documents typed on Hiss's typewriter, and he led federal agents to the “pumpkin papers”—microfilms of government documents, allegedly supplied by Hiss, which were hidden in a pumpkin on Chambers's farm.

      Chambers's autobiography, Witness, was published in 1952. In 1964 selections from his diaries and letters, edited by Duncan Norton-Taylor, were published as Cold Friday.

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